1997 Research Publications

Zoology

Books and Chapters

Black, R. and Johnson, M.S. Tidal ponds: unusual habitats characteristic of the Houtman Abrolhos Islnds, The Marine Flora and Fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, ed F.E. Wells, Perth, Western Australian Museum, 1: pp 47-61 (1997)

Bradshaw, S.D. Homeostasis in Desert Reptiles, Berlin, Springer-Verlag (1997)

Johnson, M.S. and Black, R. Distributions of high-intertidal gastropods in the Houtman Abrolhos Islnds, The marine flora and fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, ed F.E. Wells, Perth, Western Australian Museum, 1: pp 101-112 (1997)

Johnson, M.S. and Black, R. Isolation and genetic subdivision of populations of gastropods in tidal ponds, The Marine Flora and Fauna of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, ed F.E. Wells, Perth, Western Australian Museum, 1: pp 97-99 (1997)

Tyler, M.J., Cogger, M.G., Mahoney, M.J., McDonald, K.R., Roberts, J.D., Robertson, P. and Osborne, W.S. The Action Plan for Australian Frogs, Canberra, Wildlife Australia (1997)

Zuk, M. and Simmons, L.W. Reproductive strategies of the crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), The Evolution of Mating Systems in Insects and Arachnids, eds J.C. Choe, B.J. Crespi, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1: pp 89-109 (1997)

Journal Articles

Alcock, J. and Bailey, W.J. Success in territorial defence by male tarantula hawk wasps Hemipepsis ustulata: the role of residency, Ecological Entomology, 22: pp 377-383 (1997)

Anstee, S.D., Roberts, J.D. and O'Shea, J.E. Social structure and patterns of movement of the western pebble mound mouse (Pseudomys chapmani) at Marandoo, Western Australia, Wildlife Research, 24: pp 295-305 (1997)

Beazley, L.D., Sheard, P.W., Tennant, M., Starac, D. and Dunlop, S.A. The optic nerve regenerates but does not restore topographic projections in the lizard Ctenophorus ornatus, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 377: pp 105-120 (1997)

Bunn, S.E., Davies, P.M. and Kelleway, D.M. Contributions of sugar cane and invasive pasture grass to the aquatic food web of a tropical lowland stream, Marine and Freshwater Research, 48: pp 173-179 (1997)

Chelvanayagam, D.K. and Beazley, L.D. Toluidine blue-O is a Nissl bright-field counterstain for lipophillic fluorescent tracers Di-ASP, DIL and DiO., Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 72: pp 49-55 (1997)

Collin, S.P., Hoskins, R.V. and Partridge, J.C. Tubular eyes of deepsea fishes: a comparative study of retinal topography, Brain Behaviour and Evolution, 50: pp 335-357 (1997)

Collin, S.P. and Collin, H.B. The head and eye of the sandlance, Limnichthyes fasciatus - a field emission scanning electron microscopy study, Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 80: pp 133-138 (1997)

Collin, S.P. and Partridge, J.C. Retinal specializations in the eyes of deep-sea teleosts, Journal of Fish Biology, 49 (Supplement A): pp 157-174 (1997)

Collin, S.P. Specialisations of the teleost visual system: adaptive diversity from shallow-water to deep-sea, Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 161, Supplement 638: pp 5-24 (1997)

Driscoll, D. and Roberts, J.D. Impact of fuel reduction burning on the frog Geocrinia lutea in south-west Western Australia, Australian Journal of Ecology, 22: pp 334-339 (1997)

Driscoll, D.A. Mobility and metapopulation structure of Geocrinia alba and Geocrinia vitellina, two endangered frog species from southwestern Australia, Australian Journal of Ecology, 22: pp 185-195 (1997)

Dunlop, S.A., Roberts, J.D., Armstrong, K.N., Edwards, S.J., Reynolds, S.J., Thom, M.D. and Beazley, L.D. Impaired binocular vision after unilateral optic nerve regeneration in the frog Litoria moorei, Behavioural Brain Research, 84: pp 195-201 (1997)

Dunlop, S.A., Tee, L., Lund, R.D. and Beazley, L.D. Development of primary visual projections occurs entirely postnatally in the fat-tailed dunnart, a marsupial mouse, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 384: pp 26-40 (1997)

Dunlop, S.A., Moore, S.R. and Beazley, L.D. Changing patterns of vasculature in the developing amphibian retina, Journal of Experimental Biology, 200: pp 2479-2492 (1997)

Dunlop, S.A., ARCHER, M., Quinlivan, J.A., Beazley, L.D. and Newnham, J.P. Repeated prenatal corticosteroids delay myelination in the ovine central nervous system, Journal of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, 6: pp 309-313 (1997)

Field, L. and Bailey, W.J. Sound production in primitive Orthoptera from Western Australia: sounds used in defence and social communication in Ametrus sp. and Hadrogryllacris sp.(Gryllacrididae: Orthoptera), Journal of Natural History, 31: pp 1127-1141 (1997)

Fleming, P.A., Harman, A.M. and Beazley, L.D. Changing topography of the RPE: resulting from experimentally induced rapid eye growth, Vision Neuroscience, 14: pp 449-461 (1997)

Froend, R.H., Halse, S.A. and Storey, A.W. Planning for the recovery of Lake Toolibin, Western Australia, Wetlands Ecology and Management, 5: pp 73-85 (1997)

Fuery, C.J., Attwood, P.V., Withers, P.C., Yancey, P.H., Baldwin, J. and Guppy, M.Effects of urea of M4-LDH from elasmobranchs and urea-accumulating Australian desert frogs, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 117B: pp 143-150 (1997)

Hicks, A., Davis, S., Rodger, J., Helme Guizon, A., Laroche, S. and Mallet, J.Synapsin 1 and Syntaxin 1B in key elements in the control of neurotransmitter release are regulated by neuronal activity and long-term potentiaiton in vivo, Neuroscience, 79: pp 329-340 (1997)

Hosken, D.J. Sperm competition in bats, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Part B 264: pp 385-392 (1997)

Hosken, D.J. Thermal biology and metabolism of the Greater Long-eared Bat, Nyctophilus major (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Australian Journal of Zoology, 45: pp 145-156 (1997)

Hosken, D.J. and Withers, P.C. Temperature regulation and metabolism of an Australian bat, Chalinolobus gouldii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) when euthermic and torpid, The Journal of Comparative Physiology, B 167: pp 71-80 (1997)

Hunt, J. and Simmons, L.W. Patterns of fluctuating asymmetry in beetle horns: an experimental examination of the honest signalling hypothesis, Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 41: pp 109-114 (1997)

Kuchling, G. Restoration of epidermal scute patterns during regeneration of the Chelonian carapace, Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2:4, pp 500-506 (1997)

Mable, B.K. and Roberts, J.D. Mitochondrial DNA evolution of tetraploids in the genus Neobatrachus (Anura: Myobatrachidae), Copeia, 1997: pp 680-689 (1997)

Main, B.Y. Tropical rainforest mygalomorph spiders in the Australian desert: the irony of an adaptive legacy, Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria, 56(2): pp 339-347 (1997)

McIlwain, J.L. and Jones, G.P. Prey selection by an obligate coral-feeding wrasse and its response to small-scale disturbance, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 155: pp 189-198 (1997)

Parsons, K.E. Role of dispersal ability in the phenotypic differentiation and plasticity of two marine gastropods.1.Shape, Oecologia (1997), 110: pp 461-471 (1997)

Parsons, K.E. Contrasting patterns of heritable geographic variation in shell morphology and growth potential in the marine gastropod Bembicium vittatum: evidence from field experiments, Evolution, 51(3): pp 784-796 (1997)

Ridsdill-Smith, T.J. and Annells, A.J. Seasonal occurance and abundance of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acarina: Penthaleidae) in annual pastures of south-western Australia, Bulletin of Entomological Research, 87: pp 413-423 (1997)

Roberts, J.D., Horwitz, P., Wardell-Johnson, G., Maxson, L.R. and Mahoney, M.J. Taxonomy, relationships and conservation of a new genus and species of myobatrachid frog from the high rainfall region of southwestern Australia, Copeia, 1997: pp 373-381 (1997)

Roberts, J.D. Geographic variation in male call and species boundaries in tetraploid frogs of the Australian genus Neobatrachus (Myobatrachidae), Australian Journal of Zoology, 45: pp 95-112 (1997)

Roberts, J.D. Call evolution in Neobatrachus (Anura: Muyobatrachidae): speculations on the origins of tetraploids, Copeia, 1997: pp 791-801 (1997)

Simmons, L.W. and Kvarnemo, C. Ejaculate expenditure by male bush crickets decreases with sperm competition intensity, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 264: pp 1203-1208 (1997)

Sinclair, E.A. and Westerman, M. Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Potorous (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) using allozyme electrophoresis and sequence analysis of the cytochrome b gene, Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 4: pp 147-161 (1997)

Thompson, A.P. and O'Shea, J.E. The unusual adrenergic-like excitaory actin of acetylcholine on the ventricular cardiac muscle of the Horned Shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni, Physiological Zoology, (70)2: pp 135-142 (1997)

Thompson, G.G., Bradshaw, S.D.and Withers, P.C. Energy and water turnover rates of a free-living and captive goanna, Varanus caudolineatus (Lacertilia: Varanidae), Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 116A: pp 105-111 (1997)

Thompson, G.G. and Withers, P.C. Comparative morphology of Western Australian varanid lizards (Squamata: Varanidae), Journal of Morphology, 233: pp 127-152 (1997)

Thompson, G.G. and Withers, P.C. Evaporative water loss of Australian goanna ISquamata: varanidae), Amphibia-Reptilia, 18: pp 177-190 (1997)

Thompson, G.G. and Withers, P.C. Standard and maximal metabolic rates of goannas (Squamata: Varanidae), Physiological Zoology, 70: pp 307-323 (1997)

Conference Publications

Bradshaw, S.D. Water metabolism of endangered marsupial species, Advances in Comparative Endocrinology, Bologna, Monduzzi Editore, II: pp 1701-1705 (1997)

Collin, S.P. and Hoskins, R.V. Maximising sensitivity and spatial resolution in deep-sea fish. Topographic mismatching of the displaced amacrine and ganglion cell populations in the lantern fish, Lampanuctus macdonaldi, 17th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, NSW, Australian Neuroscience Meeting, 8: p 25 (1997)

Dunlop, S.A., Quinlivan, J.A., Harper, C.G., Archer, M.A., Newnham, J.P. and Beazley, L.D. Corticosteroids delay myelination of optic axons in fetal sheep, 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, Society for Neuroscience, 23, part 2: p 2251 (1997)

Dunlop, S.A., Tran, N., Papdimitriou, J., Stirling, R.V. and Beazley, L.D. Optic nerve regeneration in lizards, 17th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Meeting, NSW, Australian Neuroscience Society, 8: p 74 (1997)

Kuchling, G. Patterns of exploitation, decline, and extinction of Erymnochelys madagascariensis, Conservation, Management and Restoration of Tortoises and Turtles, New York, The New York Turtle and Tortoise Society, 1: pp 113-117 (1997)

Kuchling, G. Managing the last survivors: integration of in situ and ex situ conservation of Pseudemydura umbrina, Conservation, Management and Restoration of Tortoises and Turtles, New York, The New York Turtle and Tortoise Society, 1: pp 339-344 (1997)

Newnham, J., Dunlop, S.A., Quinlivan, J.A., Harper, C.G., Archer, M.A. and Beazley, L.D. The effect of cortiocosteroids on optic nerve development in fetal sheep, 17th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Meeting, NSW, Australian Neuroscience Society, 8: p 36 (1997)

Rodger, J and Dunlop, S.A. The ipsilateral retinal projection in the fat-tailed dunnart, a marsupial mouse, Sminthopsis crassicaudata, 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, Society for Neuroscience, 23, part 1: p 728 (1997)

Rodger, J., Hicks, A., Davis, S., Laroche, S. and Mallet, J. Molecular changes in the exocytotic pathway following long-term potentiation in the hippocampus and during learning in the rat, 17th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Meeting, NSW, Australian Neuroscience Society, 8: p 56 (1997)

Stirling, R.V., Dunlop, S.A.and Beazley, L.D. In vitro recording of the retinotectal projection in lizards, 17th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, NSW, Australian Neuroscience Society, 8: p 159 (1997)